Rugby player charged
NZPA-Reuter Port Elizabeth
Police have charged a Coloured (mixed race) rugbyplayer with illegally elitering a black township near Port Elizabeth to watch a rugby match.
Gavin Van Eyk, captain of a multi-racial team, was stopped at a police roadblock on Sunday and charged with being in a black area without a permit, the president of the non-racial South African Rugby Union. Mr Abddl Abass, said last evening. ... ■ ’ . "New Zealand should know that when we want to play non-racial sport, one of our players is prevented from playing." he said.
"South Africa tells the world there is. no apartheid in sport, yet' a player is stopped and turned away."
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Press, 5 August 1981, Page 6
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